1958-66 Vice-Minister of Light Industry Kim Pok-sin
1971-81 Minister of Textile and Paper Manufacturing Industry
1981-circa 2002 Vice-Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the Administration
Council and Chairperson of
the Committee for Light Industry
Deputy Director of the Puongyang Local General Bureau of Industry 1966-69 and appointed Alternate member of the Politburo in 1983. (b. 1925-)

1961-63 Minister of Agriculture
Pak Chong-se
Member of the Politburo as the only female member to date

Firste elected member of the SPA from 1946, and among many other posts, she
was First Deputy Director of the General Department for Overseas Korean
Affairs around 1989, President of the Democratic Front for the Reunification
of the Fatherland and

Vice-Chairperson of the Supreme People's Assembly

1998-2009. She lived (1928-2009)

1988-2003 Head of the Light Industry
Division of the Worker’s Party Economic Policy Audit Department Kim Kyung-hee
2010- Member of the Political Bureau of the Worker's Party and General
in the Korean People's Army2012- Party Secretary and Director of
the WPK Organisation and Guidance Department2013- Member of the Executive
Committee of the Worker's PartyThe sister of the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, and had direct access to him in decision-making, bypassing the department chief. She held various official posts
from 1976. Apparently she was removed from power in 2003 together with her
husband, and reappeared in public in 2009. Her nephew, Kim Jong-un, became Supreme Leader in 2012 she is believed
to act as a kind of "regent" - until 2013 together with her husband, Jang Sung-taek, who was removed from power
several times and executed. She remained powerful. (b.
1946-)

2009- Chairperson of the Korean Committee for Cultural
Relations with Foreign Countries Kim Jong SukFormer editor-in-chief of
the North Korean newspaper Minju Choson, or Democratic Korea. Widow of a
former foreign minister.

2010-12 Deputy Prime Minister and Alternate
Member of the Political Bureau of the Worker's Party Kim Rak HuiFormer Vice Department Director of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chief Secretary the
South Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK 2005-10. She lived (1933-2013)

2014- Vice-Director of the Workers Party's Propaganda and Agitation
Department Kim Yo-jongHeld senior posts in the WPK Central Committee. In
In October 2014 she was reported to have possibly taken over state duties
for her ailing brother, Kim Jong-Un, while he
underwent medical treatment. (b. 1987-)